Alan Latham is a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He has undertaken research in Germany, America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden on cities as diverse as Auckland, London, New York, Eugene (OR), Malmo, Berlin, and Champaign-Urbana. Before moving to UCL he held academic positions at the University of Southampton, and the University of Auckland.

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• VOLUME ONE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITYPart One: Cities and the New Global Economy“Chinatown”, Part Two? The ‘Internationalization’ of Downtown Los Angeles - M. DavisLos Angeles as Postmodern Urbanism - M. Dear and S. FlustyEuropean Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy - M. CastellsThe City as an Entertainment Machine - R. Lloyd and T.N. ClarkA Flexible City of Strangers - R. SennettPart Two: Theorising Global and World CitiesLeading World Cities: Empirical Evaluations of Urban Nodes in Multiple Networks - P.J. TaylorLocating Cities on Global Circuits - S. SassenThe Ordinary City - A. Amin and S. GrahamTheses on Urbanization - N. BrennerMexico: Cultural Globalization in a Disintegrating City - N.G. CancliniSuper-Diverse Street: A ‘Trans-Ethnography’ across Migrant Localities - S.M. HallPart Three: Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and Policy MobilityNeoliberalism as Creative Destruction - D. HarveyNew Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy - N. SmithNeoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations - J. Peck, N. Theodore and N. BrennerExpertise, Truth, and Urban Policy Mobilities: Global Circuits of Knowledge in the Development of Vancouver, Canada’s ‘Four Pillar’ Drug Strategy - E.J. McCannVOLUME TWO: LIFESTYLE, CONSUMPTION AND THE UNEQUAL CITYPart One: Urban Lifestyles, Gentrification and New Urban SpacesFlexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on ‘Post Modernism’ in the American City - D. HarveyArtists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification - D. LeyConsuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion - S. ZukinPart Two: Cultural EconomiesBohemia and Economic Geography - R. FloridaCreative Cities: Conceptual Issues and Policy Questions - A.J. ScottUrban Development and the Politics of a Creative Class: Evidence from a Study of Artists - A. MarkusenPart Three: Urban SpectacleLandscape as Spectacle: World’s Fairs and the Culture of Heroic Consumption - D. Ley and K. OldsAppropriating the Spectacle: Play and Politics in a Leisure Landscape - Q. Stevens and K. DoveyPart Four: Urbanity, Sociality and ConsumptionUrbanity, Lifestyle and Making Sense of the New Urban Cultural Economy: Notes from Auckland, New Zealand - A. LathamTransposing the Urban to the Mall: Routes, Relationships, and Resistance in Two Santiago, Chile, Shopping Centers - J. Stillerman and R. SalcedoThe Magic of the Marketplace: Sociality in a Neglected Public Space - S. WatsonPart Five: New Geographies of Urban ExclusionFortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation - T.P. CaldeiraNeighbourhood Effects and Cultural Exclusion - H. BauderTerritorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality - L. WacquantThe Cosmopolitan Canopy - E. AndersonVOLUME THREE: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES AND THE POSTCOLONIAL CITYPart One: Re-Thinking Urban ComparisonThe Legitimacy of Comparisons in Comparative Urban Studies: A Theoretical Position and an Application to North African Cities - J. Abu-LughodThe Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Postmodernism?) - A.D. KingThinking Cities through Elsewhere: Comparative Tactics for a More Global Urban Studies - J. RobinsonHybrid Gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across Southern and Northern Cities - C. LemanskiPart Two: Citizenship and Innovations in Living TogetherInsurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries - J. HolstonThe Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory - G. BaiocchiLiving Dangerously: Biopolitics and Urban Citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia - A. ZeidermanDeep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics - A. AppaduraiPart Three: Planning and GovernanceWhy India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization - A. RoyChina’s Changing Urban Governance in the Transition towards a More Market-Oriented Economy - F. WuPart Four: Postcolonial Urban MaterialitiesPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg - A. SimoneThe City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space - C. McFarlanePostcolonialising Informality? - A. VarleyThe Metonymic Urbanism of Twenty-First-Century Mumbai - A. HarrisHaussmannization in the Tropics: Abject Urbanism and Infrastructural Violence in Nicaragua - D. RodgersVOLUME FOUR: COMPLEXITY AND MATERIALITYPart One: Theorising MaterialityCyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City - M. GandyMoving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies - A. Latham and D. McCormackThe Good City - A. AminOut of Order Understanding Repair and Maintenance - S. Graham and N. ThriftPart Two: Mobility, Bodies, AffectEncountering Stressed Bodies: Slow Creep Transformations and Tipping Points of Commuting Mobilities - D. BissellThings at Work: Informal Social-Material Mechanisms for Getting the Job Done - H. Molotch and N. Mcclain‘But Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred - N. ThriftPart Three: Digital and Smart CitiesThe Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism - R. KitchinExtract from Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City - W.J. MitchellPart Four: Co-Producing Knowledge about Urban EnvironmentsCommunity Knowledge in Environmental Health Science: Co-Producing Policy Expertise - J. CorburnLiving Roofs and Brownfield Wildlife: Towards a Fluid Biogeography of UK Nature Conservation - J. LorimerPart Five: Cities and the AnthropoceneGlobal Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 and Direct Impacts on Biodiversity and Carbon Pools - K.C. Seto, B. Güneralp and L.R. HutyraCities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change - M.M. Betsill and H. BulkeleyPart Six: New Models of Cities and ComplexityThe Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities - M. BattyGrowth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities - L.M. Bettencourt, J. Lobo, D. Helbing, C. Kühnert and G.B. WestExtract from A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity - M. DeLanda